BUCKLAND, a parish in the hundred of GANFIELD,
county of BERKS, 4 miles (B. N. B.) from Great Far-
ringdon, containing, with Carswell, 893 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the
king's books at £ 18. 4. 7., endowed with £300 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of Robert Throckmorton, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. Henry Southby, in 1793,
gave £200 and some land; and his executrix, Sarah
Hayter, gave £200 more, for the instruction of girls
and for a Sunday school; and Sir J. Throckmorton,
in 1793, gave a house for the charity: the income is
about £40 a year, for which twenty-five children of
each -sex are taught and partly clothed. There is 'a
^mall parochial library.